Detroits bloody ass year

[Homicidalheathen]

I heard on the news last night...

We had the bloodiest year ever...with the last week (christmas week no less) topping them all with like 12 murders, one being a 2 month old by mommy and her b/f.

Happy fucking new year detroit!

Ha! I survived it.

[KatRN05]

I feel terrible after reading about that 2 month old. I think we should be able to take turns beating the shit out the parents.

Edited December 31, 2009 by KatRN05

[Homicidalheathen]

Look at this lie, I heard it was 12 not 8 AND they lie about the overall numbers...we are worse than L.A.

<H1 class=fontStyle51>Bloody Week, Yet Detroit's Murder Rate Still Down</H1>Updated: Wednesday, 30 Dec 2009, 10:49 PM EST

Published : Wednesday, 30 Dec 2009, 7:39 PM EST

By AMY LANGE

myFOXDetroit.com

DETROIT (myFOXDetroit.com) - It's been a violent past few days in the city of Detroit. Several lives cut short after someone decides to pull the trigger. Despite that the murder rate over the last six months has been down, but the city's homicide rate is still a major problem.

Monday night, gunmen shoot a store clerk. They're caught on surveillance video standing over him and taking aim. He survived. So did the taxi driver shot Wednesday morning. His cab was riddled with bullets.

However, many others did not survive, such as three of the people gunned down at a home on Novara Monday night. Another man was shot dead at a townhouse on Kitchener on Tuesday in the middle of the day.

A woman and her boyfriend are charged with killing her two-month-old baby, and now another man is charged with chasing down, shooting and killing a man he thought was going to break into his home. All of this and more just since Christmas.

"It has been a bloody week. A number of multiple shooting scenes," said Detroit Police Assistant Chief Ralph Godbee. "We want to assure the public, number one, that these are in general not random shootings."

Godbee says a number of them are drug related.

Detroit Police say there have been a total of eight murders in the city since Christmas Eve, but during that same time period in 2008, there were 15 murders.

"No matter what we do as a police agency, we really need our public to have trust and confidence in us that we're marching in the right direction, but also to give us information," Godbee said.

Detroit Police credit the community with a ten-percent drop in the homicide rate in the third quarter of 2009 compared to 2008, and they're hoping, with the community's help, to keep the trend going in the New Year.

"They've been tremendous. They've been staying away from that trend of no snitching, and it really helped us close a number of cases, so we need that continued support from the community," said Godbee.

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http://helpfindthemissing.org/forum/showthread.php?p=707325 ...for a pic of one sick fucking bitch....

http://www.detroitgothic.net/index.php?showtopic=31690 ...for actual rates...

[KatRN05]

I don't care about the numbers, I'm sure we are still murder capital of the country. Last week was particularly bad. I don't understand why those parents would kill their baby. If they didn't want her, they could have given her up. Such a tragic end to a short short life.